Anyway, getting to the point, Damn You Auto Correct ! is a web site that had much the same effect when I found it a couple of nights ago. Someone on Twitter posted this link to a compilation of the best posts from January. The posts are comprised of screen shots submitted by users of their iPhone text conversations where the iPhones attempts to auto correct their messages have come out not quite how the sender intended…. Suffice to say many are of an adult theme so you have been warned….

I am using Outlook to connect to Exchange 2007 Server ( not IMAP or POP ) and have noticed that most of the time the status bar at the bottom right of the Outlook window states that it is Downloading. If I make any changes by deleting/moving emails from the Inbox or sending new messages the Downloading status will appear showing something like 1/2 ( ie 1 of 2 messages presumably ) and this will stay like this for several minutes. If you click on the status bar a Progress window will appear showing which folders are being downloaded from/to which also shows the same slow downloading of emails.

At first I assumed that everytime I happened to look at the status bar it must be in the middle of downloading an email with a large attachment but on closer examination I am not convinced this is true. I now suspect that this apparent slow downloading is something to do with the sync of messages and less to do with the content of the emails actually being downloaded, but can’t obviously be sure of this.

It appears I am not alone in noticing this as I have found a number of articles that mention the same issue, but none appear to have a solution to the problem ( see links below ). Have you noticed this ?

On a personal front I love my new Apple TV and most of the evening TV viewing in our house is now courtesy of the little black box. At the recent Christmas get together at BritishMac HQ there was some debate about the latest version and most present were in favour of the old model. Whilst I can see some of the benefit from having a local storage device, all my content is streamed from my iMac so the lack of local storage is not an issue for me really. Whichever your preference, it is clear the new, cheaper, smaller model has been a surprise hit and it will certainly be interesting to see where Apple goes with their hobby next.

This thread on the Apple discussion site has a number of suggested fixes. The one that appears to have worked for me is a quick hard reset of the iPhone but others report that the only solution was to reduce te number of items in each of their folders to less than 8 apps.

Have you seen this problem on your iOS device since the update ? What was your solution ? Have you been unable to resolve the problem ?

To correct the problem and enable access all you have to do is go to the iTunes store, and create a new stronger password. Open iTunes and click on the iTunes Store, then click on your Apple ID ( at the top right of the iTunes window ).Your Apple account information should be displayed, click on the Edit button next to your Apple ID then on the following screen create a new password and click Done. You should find that once you have done this you can now login to the Find My iPhone service ( either the iPhone app or through the http://www.me.com site )

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Surely Apples lawyers cannot ignore this one ?

Key amongst these changes is a reduction in the range of mobile devices that will continue to work with the service. When the policy is fully deployed only devices that fully support Exchange encryption will be able to connect to the service. The supported hardware after December will be Apple iPhone ( 3GS and 4 ), Apple iPad, Windows Mobile 6 and higher, Blackberry with Notifysync and certain Nokia E series mobiles. Noticeable by their absence are any Google Android based devices as the platform does not support the encryption required by the service.

For many the only safe solution until this release was to disable Java in the browser preferences rendering sites that depend on Java ( not Javascript ) unusable.

The update is available through Software Update and weighs in at a hefty 158Mb.